Quotes with high-quality

Quotes 81 till 100 of 612.

  • Mark Twain As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ben Bernanke As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise - security, quality and worms.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Bill Maris As life expectancy extends beyond 80 years in some parts of the world, more people are struggling with brain diseases. For older people, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other conditions become a major impediment to quality of life.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Henry David Thoreau As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • George Washington Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Caroline Lawrence At 16, when I was at Henry M. Gunn High School, I had a crush on the English teacher, and my grades improved dramatically. This great school had only 400 students, mostly children of Stanford professors, and it was more usual to have classes under one of the oak trees dotted around the campus than in the classroom.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • Bill Fagerbakke Athletics provided a life preserver for me, and that maybe kept me out of trouble. I never partied in high school. I mostly just dated.
    Bill Fagerbakke
    American actor (1957 - )
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  • Erich Fromm Authority is not a quality one person ''has,'' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Frank Moore Colby Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Bill James Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn't have any impact on how productive you were. But in fact, baseball is a high-stress occupation, and those sort of stress-inducing activities... just have a huge impact on how the team functions, I think.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Bobby Flay Basically, there are two things we know: Everybody has less time, and the general public is demanding better food - better in terms of quality and better in terms of flavor.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • A. E. Housman Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle,
    Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and founded strong.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 48, st. 1
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • T. Boone Pickens Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the Ready- Aim-Aim-Aim Syndrome. You must be willing to fire.
    T. Boone Pickens
    American business magnate and financier (1928 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Audre Lorde Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Homer But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Ronald Reagan But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Barry Commoner By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Saskya Pandita By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.
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